[外语类试卷]大学英语四级模拟试卷726及答案与解析.doc
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1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 726及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition entitled People are Enjoying a Richer Life. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below: 二、 Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minut
2、es) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions attached to the passage. For questions 1-7, mark: Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information give
3、n in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 2 Foreign Adoptions Madonna, as you might have heard, is in the process of adopting a baby from Malawi. The one-year-old boy named David was flown last month to London. The American pop music star and her husband ha
4、ve a home there. Madonna is married to film director Guy Ritchie and is the biological mother of two children. Madonna recently gave millions of dollars to support efforts to help orphans(孤儿 )in Malawi. The southern African country is one of the poorest nations in the world. Madonna says she wants t
5、o give David a better life. But some people criticized her for adopting a child whose father is still alive; even if the father did agree to it. And some child psychologists said children do best if they are well cared for in their own homeland. The adoption is not yet final. The Lilongwe High Court
6、 gave Madonna and her husband temporary custody of David on October twelfth. The court order is for eighteen months. During that period a social worker will report on how the boy is being cared for. A committee of sixty-seven human rights groups in Malawi argued that adoption laws there normally bar
7、 international adoptions. The committee has brought a legal action to make sure if Madonna received special treatment. Madonna says she did not. But she has supporters. They include Jane Aronson, an influential expert on adoptions and head of the World Orphans Foundation, She says Madonna is offerin
8、g David a new life. More than two thirds of people in the United States who adopt children from other countries are not famous. They are people like Miriam and John Baxter of Bethesda, Maryland. The Baxters have a biological daughter named Olivia. Olivia was almost eight when her new brother, Matthe
9、w, arrived. The Baxters adopted Matthew from an orphanage(孤儿院 ) in South Korea. They had thought about adopting a baby from China. But their plans changed five years ago after the World Trade Center attack in New York. A nearby office where they needed to get a document to satisfy Chinese adoption r
10、equirements was closed temporarily. Waiting for the office to re-open would have delayed the process another month. And the Baxters already faced a year of waiting. Then they learned that it might be faster to try to adopt a child from South Korea. Miriam Baxter has a brother and sister who were ado
11、pted from there. And, in her words, “we wanted the child so much, we just could not wait any longer.“ There are many older children in the United States who could be adopted. Finding permanent homes for them is difficult, especially if they have physical or emotional problems. People who want to ado
12、pt usually want a child who is healthy and very young. In nineteen seventy-three, the Supreme Court ruled that women have a right to end unwanted pregnancies. So, for more and more Americans looking to adopt, the answer is to look in another country. The State Department approved immigrant visas for
13、 eight thousand foreign adopted children in nineteen eighty-nine. By last year the number was almost twenty-three thousand. The Census Bureau says two and a half percent of all children in-the United States are adopted. Of those, about thirteen percent are foreign-born. Years ago, few unmarried Amer
14、icans or couples older than forty adopted babies. Today, it is much more common for single people to adopt. The same is true of older married couples and older singles. Some couples of the same sex also adopt children. Adoption laws differ from state to state. People who want to adopt must show they
15、 can provide a safe and loving home. But sometimes they have to wait years until an adoption agency can find a child for them. So they might seek a private adoption for example, by paying a woman to have a baby for them. By some estimates, the average cost of an adoption is less than twenty thousand
16、 dollars. But some parents pay a lot more. Foreign adoptions can also be costly. For example, to adopt a Russian child can cost more than thirty thousand dollars. Many adoption agencies in the United States handle foreign adoptions. For parents, the easiest adoptions often involve what is called dir
17、ect relinquishment(放弃 ). This means the bio- logical parents might be dead. Or they might have already surrendered their child to an orphanage. But, like many other adoptions, international adoptions take time in some cases, many months. Adoption agencies and the State Department have a number of re
18、quirements for people who want to adopt a foreign child. The prospective parents must prove they are in good health and able to financially support a child. Officials also look for criminal records. And a social worker visits the home, to make sure the home and family will be good for the child. In
19、addition, prospective parents must meet any requirements of foreign adoption agencies and governments. Some doctors in the United States, like Jane Aronson, provide special services for parents who want to adopt a foreign child. Parents have to know there is a risk that the children they adopt might
20、 not be as healthy as they seem. For example, the State Department last month put out a notice to any Americans who recently adopted a child from southern Kazakhstan. The Kazakh government reported that as many as sixty-one children in the Shymkent area were infected with the virus that causes AIDS.
21、 The State Department said parents may wish to talk to their childs doctor about testing for H.I.V. It said testing is now required for all children from Kazakhstan adopted by American parents as of the middle of September. The United States has been preparing to put into effect an international tre
22、aty called the Hague Convention on Inter-country Adoption. That may happen next year. The treaty aims to fight child trafficking. Some people are concerned that foreign adoptions could take longer and cost more as a result of rule changes required by the treaty. But the Wall Street Journal noted las
23、t week that the rules will mean adoption agencies have to try harder to get health information on children. Any adoption can be complex, both for the parents and the child. This is true especially in families with adopted children from other races and cultures. There are issues of identity and accep
24、tance. 2 This passage is a report on the growing number of Americans who adopt children from other countries. ( A) Y ( B) N ( C) NG 3 Some child psychologists said that children do best in their own country. ( A) Y ( B) N ( C) NG 4 Most American people who adopt foreign-born children are not famous.
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